Darkness Rises Chapter 6: Roy G Biv, a harry potter fanfic

Disclaimer in first chapter.

A/N: My chapters are short and my plot seems slow but I promise the next chapter will get going. I just don't know how long till I get it done. I bet some people are ready to strangle me for how long this chappie took to get up. But at least it's here. : )

A/N: Just a reminder. Harry's been gone 1 year in the wizarding world. It's been 4 years for Harry. This would be his 6th year and he would be 15 but because of the time difference Harry is 18. 18 you got that. Good. Now on with the show.

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Key to Speech:

"Speech"

Thoughts

"Parseltongue"

"mind speech"

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Pronunciations:

Y'arman- Are-Man (the Y is silent)

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Last Chapter: Harry lay back chuckling softly. He hissed a thank you to Lona for apparently shocking Snape out of whatever he had come to do.

Chapter 6: Roy G. Biv

When Harry reached the potions class room the door was still locked and no one was inside. He studied the locking spells and quickly disabled them along with the alarms. After he had slipped inside he reapplied the spells and settled down to wait.

When he heard Snape coming he cast a heavy notice-me-not spell over himself. He watched Snape arrange some papers on his desk and start marking them. Harry had to smile when Snape cursed himself for setting so much summer homework. After fifteen minutes or so Harry could hear students approaching and watched Snape get up and leave through a side door. He now understood how Snape always managed to sweep into the room just as the last students arrived. The Professor's carefully planed act certainly did have the desired effect suitably impressing and instilling fear into his class.

It was disheartening to see how few first year Slytherins and Gryfindors there were compared to previous years. Once what seemed like most of the class filed in Harry removed his notice-me-not spell when he thought no one was looking. However one person had seen him.

A small Slytherin in the back stared at Harry after he seemingly appeared out of thin air. Harry motioned for him to be quiet hoping he would go along with him and to his relief the small boy gave him a grin and turned studiously forward.

As was his custom Professor Snape swept in barking instructions almost immediately and didn't turn around until he had written instructions on the board. He was rather unhappy since he had not seen his new apprentice enter while he was waiting for all of the students. He was going to have a word with him as soon as this class ended.

"Now gather your ingredients and start brewing" He said as he turned. "You…" He noticed Adrian in the back. How the hell did he get in here? The door didn't open after I entered. He thought almost immediately picking up his sentence again not letting his surprise show. "will be brewing a color changing potion, called the Roy G. Biv potion after it's creator, it's used to dye fabric so don't go fooling around. I'll not have blue or red students in my class."

The students scurried to obey him and Snape strode to the back of the class. Harry kept his face blank fighting the urge to smirk at Snapes barely disguised bewilderment. This was exactly why he had snuck into the room early just to see the Potions Master a little unbalanced.

"You certainly command your classes respect." Harry said as Snape reached him.

Severus wanted to ask about his appearance Harry could tell but ever faithful to his image spoke barely disguised instructions in an scathing voice. "I assume you know how to brew the Roy G. Biv potion. I expect you to help the students they are brewing the blue and red versions."

Harry nodded and moved off down the isle to talk to the small Slytherin that had kept his appearance quiet. He was amused to see the first year staring rather unhappily at his potions book.

"Need help?" he said coming up behind him. The first year startled and looked up hopefully.

"Yeah" he said and upon recognizing Harry, "How did you appear like that? I can't believe you surprised Prof. Snape. Who are you?"

"Whoa slow down." Harry smiled at the curious babble the student had erupted in and how he tacked on perhaps one of the more important questions last. "My name is Adrian and I'm here to help your class. I'm surprised you noticed that Severus was surprised you must be very perceptive. What's your name?"

"I'm Derek, my mom always say's I'm too perceptive for my own good!"

"Nice to meet you Derek and thank you for helping me surprise the professor. Now how 'bout you ask me a potions question?"

"I think I understand how to do it it's just I can't read Prof. Snape's handwriting and I can't find the Roy G. Biv Potion in my book."

Harry looked up at the board examining the elegant cursive that would be considered a little hard to read for a first year. "You'll get used to it." He assured him, "But till you learn to read Severus's Handwriting I'll tell you a secret. Most potions have other names more commonly used than the originals and the Roy G. Biv potion is also the common Rainbow potion which I believe is on page 23. Make sure you read the directions carefully so that you brew the Red or Blue version."

Derek thanked him and Harry moved off helping other students as he went. He focused on both classes but found that the Gryffindor seemed to be in need of more help and noticed Snape only helping Slytherins. So he changed his focus to mostly Gryffindor and found himself cursing some of the stupid things they did.

Near the end of class a Gryffindor left her potion and headed in the direction of the storage room. Harry immediately headed towards her potion calling her to come back. This was a critical point in this potion it had to be kept stirred, but her cauldron was on the other side of the room and she was ignoring him.

The potion exploded and the caldron tipped spilling the Roy G. Biv potion all over Derek Y'arman, who immediately became a sickly yellow color. This was not good. Since they were brewing red and blue both primary colors Derek's new complexion meant that something had been wrong with the potion.

Snape was immediately cleaning up the potion before it stained his whole dungeon and yelled for Harry to take Derek to the Hospital Wing.

"I'm fine really could you just change my color back?" Derek protested as Harry pulled him out of the Dungeons. He could also hear Snape berating the female Gryffindor who had left her cauldron.

By the time they got to the Hospital Wing Derek had stopped protesting his health and was stumbling behind Harry.

"Who are you? What happened to this poor student?" Madam Pomfrey came bustling forward.

"He had a run in with a misbrewed Roy G. Biv." Harry said ignoring her first question. Hadn't Dumbledore informed the staff about me? He thought, I suppose I'll have to make an appearance at dinner tonight so people will stop questioning me.

"What color were they brewing?"

"Red or Blue"

"And he turned yellow!" She exclaimed bustling about checking Derek over. "Here drink this." She said handing a potion to Derek and a large glass of water. "This potion will make sure you don't get color poisoning and the water will dilute the yellow so it can be removed."

"But that will dilute the potion you just gave him too." Harry said taking the glass of water and setting it too the side.

"I can't very well leave him this color. What do you suggest?"

Harry smiled and pulled out his wand. He muttered a spell under his breath and waved his wand at Derek. The yellow immediately started to fade and to Madam Pomfrey's surprise disappear completely.

Harry then swept out of the room with Madam Pomfrey gaping at him. He could here her start asking Derek questions after he was out of sight.

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A/N: My friends have greatly saddened me. They didn't know who (or should I say what) Roy G. Biv was. I must admit I gave you more clues but let me know whether you know about Roy G. Biv or not.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed. It's been a long time since I updated but what can I say, I try.

Anyways I can't answer each of you but I can anwer question.

First off: Just a reminder. Harry's been gone 1 year in the wizarding world. It's been 4 years for Harry. This would be his 6th year and he would be 15 but because of the time difference Harry is 18. 18 you got that. I know I put this twice at the beginning and now again but people get confused so I'm saying it again.

Second: not sure how long it will be. I didn't really think this story out before I started writing. That's why it takes me so long to update I'm not following a plan I'm just pulling plot out of my ass.

Third: I will not make it Ginny/Harry unless an amazing amount of people ask for it. I tend to dislike that pairing (though I have read some good ones so I'm not completely dissing it. just ginny seems like she should be the protective sister) and doubt since there are protests from some reviewers that it'll happen. I'm not sure what I'll write in, as I said I'm pulling this all out of my ass. I read a little bit of everything on FFN so a slash plot has as much chance of making it way into my story as a hetro one. I just haven't picked yet and I'm very open to suggestions. I'm keeping tally on what's suggested (what people want and don't want) and I might just go along with the crowd, I might not. Who knows. shrugs right now I'm not sure harry with have a love interest, however snape/saede sounds fun. Maybe her mystical calm is just what he needs? Let me know if you agree. Who knows how I'll feel by the time the next chappie is done. Everything could change completely.